Re: burden of maintainance

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Phillip Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden/large/emacs]$ make test
> make: Nothing to be done for `test'.
>
>
> I would rename "check" to "test" and add "test" to .PHONY. I didn't
> even know that Emacs had an automated test suite until one of the
> elongated threads that Eric inspired here about six months ago.

"make check" is part of the GNU Coding Standards.  See:

* 
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html#Standard-Targets
* 
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Standard-Targets.html#Standard-Targets
* 
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Standard-Targets.html#Standard-Targets

So IMHO an alias (instead of renaming "check" to "test") would be better.